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Growth hormone therapy-related hyperglycaemia in a boy with renal cystic hypodysplasia and a new mutation of the HNF1 beta gene.
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association - 1 Sept 2010
Giglio Sabrina, Contini Elisa, Toni Sonia, Pela Ivana
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We provide a molecular and pathophysiological characterization of an 11-year-old male patient, with a diagnosis of renal hypodysplasia, cysts and chronic renal failure. Although previously normoglycaemic and with a negative familial history for diabetes mellitus, he developed fasting hyperglycaemia within 12 months of the start of treatment with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH). Direct sequencing of the...
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